Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters - Hardcover

Stone, Deborah

 
9781631495922: Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1631495925 ISBN 13: 9781631495922
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Early in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics. Now, in Counting, she revolutionises how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world. Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not so, says Stone. In this playful-yet-probing work, Stone reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying, and explains how counting determines almost every facet of our lives―from how we are evaluated at work to how our political opinions are polled to whether we get into higher education or even out of prison. But numbers, Stone insists, need not rule our lives. Especially in this age of big data, Stone’s work is a pressing and spirited call to reclaim our authority over numbers, and to take responsibility for how we use them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Deborah Stone is a renowned scholar who has taught at Brandeis, MIT, and other universities around the world. Her award-winning book Policy Paradox has captivated readers through three decades, four editions, and six translations―but who’s counting? She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Verlag
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1631495925
ISBN 13 
9781631495922
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
312
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